Hot 8 Brass Band
Wednesday, March 18 at 8 pm l Kenan Auditorium
March is a busy month for UNCW Presents’ Arts in Action Series, starting with New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band. Over three years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Hot 8 has somehow surged to become not just ambassadors of the New Orleans music world post-Katrina, but also among the latest contributors to a brass-band history that is one of America's most fully lived traditions, playing the time-honored Second Line parades, which are hosted each Sunday afternoon by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs. The group has also appeared in Spike Lee's haunting HBO documentary When the Levees Broke,
parts of which Lumina Theatre will be screening for FREE. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Part 1 will show on February 23 at 7 p.m. while Part 2 will show on March 2 at 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. Presented as part of the Social Justice Film Series sponsored by UNCW Presents.
Sherman Alexie
"The Partially True Story of the True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Monday, March 23, 2009 I 7 p.m. Kenan Auditorium
Switching gears to the Leadership Lecture Series, UNCW Presents welcomes best-selling novelist Sherman Alexie. Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, writes exuberant tales of contemporary American Indian life that reshape common stereotypes from race relations and homophobia to war and morality.
I can’t really say enough about how amazingly engaging Alexie’s writing is, so I will resort to what The New York Times said about his latest, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a story about Arnold Spirit Jr., the geekiest Indian on the Spokane Reservation: “Reading [it] becomes more like listening to your smart, funny best friend recount his day while waiting after school for a ride home.”
So, mark your calendars and/or bookmark uncw.edu/presents now because you don’t want to miss out on these amazing performances and speakers coming to you practically right in your own backyard!
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